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New ESPN.com homepage
1. I punched ESPN.com into my browser.
2. I'm greeted by the most confusing interstitial ad I've seen in a while. I did not like how it messed with the reality of what I thought I was looking at.
3. Then I got a popup.
4. Then the new site loaded incredibly slowly and crashed my browser.
Won't be going back there for a while.
- brandnewlow 18y agoEditor's: thanks for cleaning this up and making it useful to HN. Sorry for the originally lame submission.
- Jasber 18y agoAny site that uses an interstitial on its homepage deserves to be beaten over the head. This breaks usability rules left and right. Hopefully this is just for the launch of the site and not permanent.
- makaimc 18y agoThe new site seems to be even slower than the old one, which was a slug in its own right.
- johns 18y agoPossible due to higher traffic from people checking out the new site. Personally, I like it, especially compared to the old site (though I think they could do without one of the page-wide ads).
- jonknee 18y agoI'm happy. They got rid of the auto-playing video side bar.
- streblo 18y agoThank god they did, I avoided ESPN.com like the plague just because of their annoying auto playing videos.
- thomasmallen 18y agoAnd I installed FlashBlock.
- fallentimes 18y agoAnd showing every single score on the planet within the header. Now it's roughly half. The individual sports pages are also much improved.
- scorxn 18y agoThe background fade looks like hell at ~1600px wide and doesn't even matte to the correct color on the right. Guess color correction took a backseat to ad planning.
- sjs382 18y agoI love it. MAJOR improvement on the old version, even though I prefer sites like this to be aligned left. I always keep my browser at 1024 wide so the fixed size is perfect for me. They got rid of the flash sections that cycle through headlines, which was a major peeve of mine. I couldn't right click them to open in new tabs.
- redorb 18y agoGood update, atleast a step in the right direction; the auto play was annoying... although it now looks like ford owns the page - guess they have a "look like you own the page" ad package... - espn.com comes in at 213 objects, 200 images - and If I'm correct I have 1.3mb in size - this is horrible I used http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
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- indraneel24 18y agoNot that great, but an improvement in its own right.
- ibsulon 18y agoI've been using the beta for a while. It's changed a lot from the original implementation. I still hate how the two pulldown menus are right next to each other - try reaching "nfl" on the list of sports with the mouse coming from the top of the screen - it's an exercise in frustration.
- jdminhbg 18y agoWell, when the All Sports pulldown comes down, its NFL entry is in exactly the same place as the NFL toolbar entry, so it's no different. Kind of a nice touch.
- newmediaclay 18y agoWith the removal of the auto playing video and cleaner overall design, this is definitely an improvement. We blogged about it a few weeks ago: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-espncom-redesign http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-...
- wigglywonk 18y agoThe old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'horrible horrible site I never go to' :-).
- brandnewlow 18y agoIt crashes my browser every time I visit. That's pretty annoying.
- chez17 18y agoLooks like it was done by the same people who did IGN's new home page.
- vlad 18y agoLooks the same to me, except that I do not see any stories about New England Patriots post-season results this year.